Reconstructing American literary history /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
[1986]
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| Series: | Harvard English studies ;
13. |
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Table of Contents:
- "We hold these truths" / Robert A. Ferguson
- Popular fiction and critical values / Morris Dickstein
- Origin and authority / Barbara Packer
- Benito Cereno and new world slavery / Eric J. Sundquist
- The American sexual poetics of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson / Sandra M. Gilbert
- Appearing and disappearing in public / Philip Fisher
- Corporate fiction / Walter Benn Michaels
- On the idealogies of poetic modernism, 1890-1913 / Frank Lentricchia
- A critique of pure pluralism / Werner Sollors
- American poet-critics since 1945 / Robert von Hallberg
- Distrust of the reader in Afro-American narratives / Robert B. Stepto
- Collage or miracle / Wendy Steiner.